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From: Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] Whatta Drag (News)....
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>the REASON might well (I'm just saying "might", right-now !) be
related =
>to the factory's having grossly OVER-stated the engine's
horsepower, so =
>that the "295"HP rating put the car into a class, where its REAL
HP =
>(let's say: 150???) could not compete with cars which had real HP =
>considerably greater than "150" (or whatever).
>WHAT ???!!!???
I know of a fully (expensive) restored 58 300-D. The owner AND
the shop that did the resto jointed decided to accommodated
todays gas. So they decided on using 1957 pistons with the
9.25:1ci instead of the 1958 10:1ci.
The first pull on the engine dyno measured out at the 57 figures
375hp. They didn't want to confirm the results of the tuning but
didn't argue with the expression that with the 392's in 57 and 58
in the 300's, a good tuner could get up to 50 more ponies just by
tuning.
Somewhere it was also suggested that with the higher Hp motors in
the 50's that marketing didn't promote the real Hp figures
because it was deemed detrimental to higher sales, they didn't
want to scare off the typical Mom and Pop buyers.
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